VA studies reconstruction

What do we call an unfair difference in the treatment of people?

• reconstruction

• Discrimination

• amendment

• sharecropper

What is a sharecropper?

• a change or addition to an existing law

• a farmer who pays for renting a piece of land by paying with a portion of the crop grown on that land

• someone who shares their crops with their friends

What do we call the time period after the Civil War in which Congress passed several laws to rebuild the country and bring southern states back into the union?

• amendment

• Reconstruction

• Construction

• sharecropper

What amendment ended slavery?

• 13th

• 33rd

How was the South doing after the Civil War?

• Great, everything was fine.

• the economy, railroads, bridges, and plantations were in ruins